On the evolution of market institutions: the platform design paradox

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We study competition among market designers who create new trading platforms, when boundedly rational traders learn to select among them. We ask whether efficient platforms, leading to market - clearing trading outcomes, will dominate the market in the long run. If several market designers are competing, we find that traders learn to select non-market clearing platforms with prices systematically above the market-clearing level, provided at least one such platform is introduced by a market designer. This in turn leads market designers to introduce non-market clearing platforms. Hence platform competition induces non-competitive market outcomes.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2012

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Noncooperative Games ; Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
• Subject: E-Business ; Lieferanten-Kunden-Beziehung ; Marktmechanismus ; Institutioneller Wettbewerb ; Markteffizienz ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Alós-Ferrer, Carlos ; Kirchsteiger, Georg ; Walzl, Markus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26057
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